7:12 AM,
Sep. 23, 2009

Millville Animal Control Officer Anthony Cills holds a Chihuahua puppy found Tuesday in a drain.

Written by

JOSEPH P. SMITH
Gannett New Jersey

A Chihuahua puppy plucked from a busy downtown street will spend the next three or four weeks in a foster home before hopefully getting adopted.

The 4-week-old male was turned into police around noon Tuesday after an unidentified woman spotted it a few feet from a storm water drain on Main Street at South High Street and alerted police at the nearby station.

A bigger danger than the drain was lunchtime traffic on the always-busy three-way intersection. ...